"Long Live Love" is a Chris Andrews

Chris Andrews (singer)

Chris Andrews is a singer and successful songwriter whose musical career started in the 1960s.-Career:...

 composition which in 1965 afforded Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Sandie Shaw is an English pop singer, who was one of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s. In 1967 she was the first UK act to win the Eurovision Song Contest...

 the second of her three UK #1 hits.

in the UK

Shaw was sufficiently confident in the hit potential of the buoyant "Long Live Love" as to turn down the chance to "It's Not Unusual

It's Not Unusual

"It's Not Unusual" is a song written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, first recorded by a then-unknown Tom Jones after having first been offered to Sandie Shaw. Jones recorded what was intended to be a demo for Shaw, but when she heard it she was so impressed with Jones' delivery that she declined the...

" allowing the last-named song to be given Tom Jones

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 and become his breakout hit. "Long Live Love" did spend three weeks at #1 UK in June 1965 also affording Shaw a #1 hit in both Ireland and New Zealand with a #2 peak attained in South Africa. A Top Ten hit in both the Netherlands(#7) and Norway (#8), "Long Live Love" was also a hit in Australia (#12) and Belgium, reaching #15 on the latter territory's Dutch language chart.

International

In France Shaw reached #5 with lyricist Georges Liferman's rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Pourvu Que Ça Dure"; at the same time the original "Long Live Love" reached #32 on the French charts. Shaw also rendered "Long Live Love" for the market in Germany as "Du weißt nichts von deinem Glück"; both the German rendition and English original reached the German Top 30, respective peaks being #25 ("Du weißt nichts...") and #28 ("Long Live Love"); the first-named charted higher in Austria (#5). In 1966 Shaw made a belated Italian rendering of "Long Live Love" entitled "Viva l’amore con te"; however the track was relegated to the B-side

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 of "E ti avrò", a rendering of the even older "Girl Don't Come" which reached #11 on the Italian charts.

Also in 1966 Shaw rendered "Long Live Love" as "¡Viva el amor!" for an EP

Extended play

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 released in Spain which also featured renderings of Shaw's UK hits "Girl Don't Come", "Message Understood" and "Tomorrow". 

In the US "Long Live Love" received enough regional attention to return Shaw to the Billboard Hot 100

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 for the third and last time, with a #97 peak.

Also

Besides Sandie Shaw's own non-English renderings of "Long Live Love", the song was recorded in 1965 as "Kiva, kiva rakkaus" by Marion Rung

Marion Rung

Marion Rung is a Finnish pop singer. She is known to have represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1973. Her 1962 Eurovision song placed 7th and in 1973, she managed to bring Finland's second best result ever in this contest, placing 6th...

, "Leve kärleken" by Lill-Babs

Lill-Babs

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 and "Viva el amor" by Gelu.

In 1992 Nick Berry

Nick Berry

Nicholas "Nick" Berry is a British television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1990 and as PC Nick Rowan in the British drama television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 1998.-Career:Berry started acting at the age of...

 recorded "Long Live Love" to be the followup single to his hit version of the theme from the TV series Heartbeat; Berry's version of "Long Live Love", which was featured in the Heartbeat series, reached #47 on the UK chart.

"Long Live Love" has also been recorded by its composer Chris Andrews, as well as Jessica Andersson in 2009

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  and Tracey Ullman

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.

There is no connection between the Chris Andrews' composition entitled "Long Live Love" and the same named song

Long Live Love (song)

"Long Live Love" was the British entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 in Brighton, United Kingdom. It was sung by Olivia Newton-John in English....

  by Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...

 which served as the 1974 Eurovision

Eurovision Song Contest 1974

The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the 19th Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom...

entrant for the UK.